[1] The 1854 history of Mississippi by B. L. C. Wailes, citing Calvin Smith, suggests that Crane arrived during the British West Florida period, as "The large British grant to Lyman of twenty thousand acres was confiscated, but upon application to Grand Pré, the sale of one-half of the tract was arrested, and it was granted to Salome, the daughter of Thaddeus Lyman, left destitute in the country with her grandfather Waterman Crane.

"[5] This church played in a role in the founding of the Scotch settlement of Gaelic-speaking Presbyterians in Jefferson County, Mississippi: The colony was established in 1806 when immigrants from the Highlands of Scotland by way of North Carolina inquired with Judge Peter Bryan Bruin of Bayou Pierre about the prospects for settling in Natchez, in what was then Mississippi Territory.

[6] One of the visitors, Dugald Torrey, found Bruin in the company of Waterman Crane and a Presbyterian minister he knew from North Carolina known as Rev.

[1]According to one history of Claiborne County, residents Waterman Crane and William R. Buck "received swords for marked gallantry in the War of 1812.

[1] Waterman and Catherine Crane are buried in a small family cemetery "somewhere west of Port Gibson, and north of Rodney Road, on a bluff overlooking the Bayou Pierre lowlands.